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… Home Is living next to a substation safe? Electricity substations are an important part of our power infrastructure, but there are concerns around whether … tends to be fixed – for example an 11 kV overhead line always operates at around 11kV – so the electric fields …
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… sixth-form students present winning engineering idea to National Grid Home 8th August 2023 Press release Students … Ysgol Friars teams were set the challenge of devising a new way to lay new electricity cables underground that was … to install new underground cables to connect Dinorwig Power Station, known as ‘Electric Mountain’. Shaun …
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… 2021 list of top 50 women in engineering, announced to mark International Women in Engineering Day (INWED). Read … only to end up hooked to what was then (to me) the strange new world of the electricity industry. I navigated from being … Project Manager by the time I left what was by then UK Power Networks, at the end of a very successful almost 11 …
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… We’ve connected more battery storage to the grid at Bustleholm Home 26th October 2023 … Our Bustleholm substation in Sandwell is host to a new connection after we completed work to plug a 50MW battery … balance the electricity system by soaking up surplus clean power and discharging it back when the grid needs it. We’re …
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… Scouts and Guides warm and happy in their new hut £20,000 grant funds refurbishment Home 1st July 2021 … Scout and Guides Groups has welcomed children back to weekly meetings following a major refurbishment of their … from Sandford to Avonmouth and working with Western Power Distribution to make changes to their local network. …
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… construction compounds and creating access tracks to our sites. Main construction work began in early 2025 and is underway, with new pylons being assembled and erected across the route and … out how – and why – we’re connecting more clean energy to power the things you love. Find out more …
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… Grain LNG sets new record for utilisation and increases global reach Home … 67 per cent of the plant’s total utilisation and equates to approximately 13 per cent of the UK’s total gas demand. … Grain will be commissioning a second cryogenic unloading line – and will be the only terminal in Europe able to …
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… National Grid unveils new truck loading facility at Isle of Grain LNG terminal Home … in Kent. The loading hub will allow road tanker operators to load liquefied natural gas (LNG) in bulk and transport the fuel directly to LNG filling stations, as well as to industrial and …
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… Electricity networks collaborate to accelerate connection timescales in West London Home 13th … London Authority, have collaborated on an innovative new technical solution to unlock electricity network capacity … now have a pathway to connect in the next 12-24 months, in line with developer timescales. This is part of a programme …
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… How does a wind turbine work? Wind turbines can turn the power of wind into the electricity we all use to power our homes and businesses. They can be stand-alone, … had a sail cloth. The world’s first wind farm opened in New Hampshire in the US in 1980. Are wind farms bad for …